Susan Savage, pretty angry in pink

Democratic Senate candidate Susan Savage was joined by Ross Levi, executive director of the Empire State Pride Agenda, at an afternoon press conference at the Capitol where they called on Sen. Hugh Farley to apologize for his statement earlier this month at a candidate forum that “same-sex marriage is an abhorrent situation.”

Savage called that a “divisive and hurtful” thing to say, and claimed that Farley’s anti-gay expressions “rival even those of Carl Paladino.”

“We’ve all seen the headlines about young people who have taken their own lives because of intolerance,” Savage said.

Levi said Farley’s use of “abhorrent” (defined, he noted, as “causing disgust or hatred”) was an insult to “loving, committed couples in his own district” and a sign of what he called the senator’s “out-of-touch, anti-equality voting record.” The Pride Agenda previously endorsed Savage.